Video: 'Saved from the Titanic' (clip)

(Tuesday, May 14, 1912) — Saved From the Titanic, the first movie inspired by the Titanic disaster, was released today just a month after the British liner sank.

The one-reel drama was produced by the Eclair Film Co. of Fort Lee, N.J., and starred Dorothy Gibson, an actress who had been an actual passenger on the doomed ship (she wore for the movie the same outfit she was wearing when rescued).

Saved From the Titanic is considered lost, the only known copies having been destroyed in a fire in 1914.